[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[S Klammer]

Rick, if you're in the Mississauga area, I might be able to provide you
with some help.  At this time, I'm not sure if I have a Model 4 or III.

Shain
On Feb 26, 2015 12:55 PM, "Rick Thornquist" <rickthornquist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Al -
>
> 1. I was considering contacting Ira, but he doesn't ship to Canada.  I am
> heading to the US in April, and if all else fails I was going to get the
> disks shipped to a friend there and pick them up.
>
> 2. Thanks for the offer!  If I can't get this to work I might just do that.
>
> 3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
> programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
> worked.  I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though.  I tried it and,
> unfortunately, it didn't work.  It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,
> though some of the programs do say they can work with those kind of
> drives.  I've just dug out an old 360KB drive and will try that instead -
> we'll see if that works.
>
> In the category of "I know this won't work but I'll try it anyway", I have
> an Amiga with a 8088 Bridgeboard and a 360KB drive that I thought I'd try
> with Imagedisk.  Not even close - it couldn't even find a drive
> controller.  Oh, well!
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> - Rick
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
>
> > While the Coco is physically capable of writing disks for the TRS-80
> Model
> > I/III/4, nobody has written imaging software to do it.
> >
> > You have several options.
> >
> > 1. You can contact Ira Goldklang at www.trs-80.com and he will make
> disks
> > for you for small donation.
> >
> > 2. If you want to send me disks with return postage, I'll gladly make you
> > boot disks.
> >
> > 3. If you have access to a PC with a 360k floppy drive you can go here:
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm  and get Imagedisk
> >
> > You can make boot disks with it. There are Model 4 disks in Imagedisk
> > format at the bottom of the page.
> >
> > I would recommend the Emulator TRS32 (http://www.trs-80emulators.com/)
> on
> > a PC for making disks from images you can find on Ira's site, or Tim
> Mann's
> > Site (http://tim-mann.org/misosys.html), or here:
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80.php
> >
> > My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I, and if I can answer questions for
> > you, I'd be glad to.
> >
> > -[ Al ]-
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Rick Thornquist
> >
> >
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I'm new to the list, having recently acquired a CoCo 3.   I have a few
> > retro computers, but I've always wanted a CoCo, and now I have one!
> >
> > I've also just acquired a TRS-80 Model 4P.  Unfortunately, the 4P didn't
> > come with operating system disks, so I'm stuck until I get some.
> >
> > My Question: I've just ordered a DriveWire cable and I've been able to
> find
> > the .DSK files for some of the TRS-80 Operating systems.  Can I use
> > DriveWire and the disk drives on the CoCo to create operating system
> disks
> > for the 4P?
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> >
> > - Rick Thornquist
> >
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